don't mind me, I only need to feel the tiniest bit unwell physically to have a metaphorical black dog barking at my door offering to take my soul down into some horribly depressive void, and I cope by trying to weird my way out of that liminal state

Just Vidman: Depression

Alt: Just Vidman: Depression

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These days if you want a job or service, often your only option is to commit to one online form or another. There are no opt-outs. Pretty much every online form nowadays asks for excessive amounts of details they don't need to be asking. It feels like submitting to a never-ending data harvest...

Denying me a job because a program told you I sound too much like the program that steals from me every damn day? Super villain origin. The next time you see me I'm showing up at the Super Bowl with a bald head and face mask like Bane.

I know if you cost me a million-dollar book deal because a program told you that my eons-long love affair with the em dash was proof of AI use, you would see me outside because we're fighting in the street.

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

This is such a blatantly disingenuous attempt of a formerly reliable media title doing a famous person's PR. This is NOT about a healthy-looking woman with normal bodies being labelled overweight, like media – not audiences! – did to Kate Winslet in the 90s and to Jessica Simpson and Britney...

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2d ago

Ariana Grande has been hounded out of public life – we need to stop making assumptions about women’s bodies

So, hey, this month's competition is actually for a chance at winning a YEAR's rent, not a month's... (UK renters only—sorry!) joflo.ws/spareroom

Jojo@jojowiththeflow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you are a renter in the UK and don't mind referral links, use mine to enter SpareRoom's monthly competition and we'll both improve our chances of winning a month's rent: joflo.ws/spareroom

The replies to this are a perfect illustration as to why I limit my own replies to followers and people I follow. Someone who has a clue who I am will at least have context not to "correct" me based on the assumption that the only real human beings live in America.

András Forgács W@andraswf.bsky.social · 4d ago

So if I'm reading this right a quarter of a MILLION people died of COVID in this country and somehow someone still thinks the mitigation measures were too harsh

Ooh fresh batch of crawler pots online! Some very nice pink ones and a clutch of smaller white ones www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

the empty bowl

Someone with a flair for language and a talent for puns, get in here now!

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 7d ago

Every time you ask AI something, remember a human had to write, source, and verify that knowledge first.

There is no good faith concern. None. There are only people who never gave a shit about trans women in sports being manipulated into thinking there are good faith concerns and then normal people. You can't have good faith concerns about a few dozen people playing fucking sports. Shut up and stop it

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 7d ago

enough of this shit

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Migration from Google Workspace to Proton has been a success, especially now that I've recreated all the mail filters I like it better. But I miss having a native calendar app (rather than the web app or opening it in the mail app—I like my mail and calendar apps open in separate windows at all...

Chances of getting sick in summer <cough> seem lower, but <sniff> not zero <sneeze>

What a loss. So young. RIP Glen Hansard.

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly

Listen to Falling Slowly on TIDAL

tidal.com

If a sex worker raises the alarm about a predator, you should probably take the warning MORE seriously, not LESS seriously... they're probably more likely to be able to recognise certain human (mis)behaviours before non-SWs can.

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · last wk.

When asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."

@ftm.eu @ftm.nl * sent (see alt text)

*ahem* If YOU would like to learn how cryptic crosswords work by watching a comedian grumpily drag his way through them on a daily basis, go to twitch.tv/brainmage at 2.30pm UK time today, and join a lovely and silly group of people who are RESOLUTELY unhelpful in my struggles.

brainmage - Twitch

Guy Kelly. Comedian, voice actor, and general nerd. UK-based variety streamer. Cryptic crosswords during the day, and videogames at night. Like a LAN café in an old folks home. guykellyalloneword@gmai...

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Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz.bsky.social · last wk.

Since I apparently cannot be stopped, now I'm learning how cryptic crosswords work. There must be at least one noble gas geochemist on this site who would be pleased to find that their field lends itself to such a clue.

I don't take pleasure in dunking on art but if this kind of installation (where the audience becomes the performance artist) tickles your fancy, why would you not just go watch or join the queues at the London Eye or the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras, or check-in queues at any London airport

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is being turned into a big maze this summer

A-maze-ing.

timeout.com

Spoiler: It's Antwerp, but you can only catch a direct Eurostar train from London to Antwerp; from Antwerp to London you'd still have to get a local train from Antwerp to Brussels first and catch a Eurostar from there

Unofficial Time Out London Bot@timeout-london-rss.bsky.social · last wk.

Eurostar is launching a brand-new direct train route from London to a major European city

“My goal is simply to protect creators when their work is allegedly commercialized without permission."

Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template

Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.

arstechnica.com

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Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

📅 Quick calendar update: from early August I will have >18hrs/wk availabe in the calendar again, so if you'd like to hire me on a freelance or contractor basis, let me know...

Jojo@jojowiththeflow.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION 📣 PA/Admin/Secretarial Services | Office Management & Relocation Support | Writing/Proofreading/Editing | Translation | Document Production (Digital & Print) | Testing/QA | Project Support | Online Community Management/Moderation | etc. joflo.ws/li | other links in bio

Working with the windows wide open feels SO nice but the drought is blowing SO much dust inside

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.